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PIL filed in Delhi HC requesting conjugal visit in Tihar Jail
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 30 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Thursday agreed to hear a PIL seeking the court's intervention in issuing a direction to Tihar Jail authorities for arrangements to provide conjugal visitation rights to the prisoners.
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Jail authorities introduce 'Freedom Prison Bazaar' for inmates
Updated : 6 years, 11 months ago IST
Coimbatore (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 30 (ANI): In an initiative to make prisoners self-employed, jail authorities of Coimbatore Central Prison on Thursday introduced a 'Freedom Prison Bazaar' where products manufactured and food prepared by inmates are purchased by the visitors.
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Turkey frees former NASA scientist after 2 years in prison
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Ankara [Turkey], May 30 (ANI): Turkey on Wednesday evening freed a former American NASA scientist, who was sentenced to over seven years in prison on terrorism charges, three years ago.
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Brazil: Violent clashes in prisons leave 55 inmates dead
Updated : 6 years, 12 months ago IST
Rio De Janeiro [Brazil], May 28 (ANI): At least 55 people were found dead after violent clashes broke out among rival drug factions in several prisons in northern Brazilian state of Amazonas, correction officials said on Monday.
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'American Taliban' to be freed after 17 years in US jail
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 22 (ANI): An Islamic terrorist, who came to be infamously known as the "American Taliban" after his 2001 capture in Afghanistan is set to be released from a US prison on Thursday, three years before he completes his 20-year-sentence, federal officials said.
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Tajikistan: 32 killed in prison riot
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Vahdat [Tajikistan], May 20 (ANI): Three guards and 29 inmates were killed after a riot broke out at a high-security prison in Tajikistan's western city of Vahdat, the country's Deputy Justice Minister Mansurjon Umarov said on Monday.
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'Russia will do its best to help convicted Maria Butina'
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Moscow [Russia], May 20 (ANI): Russia Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Sunday assured that Moscow will spare no effort to help Russian national Maria Butina, who is lodged in a US prison.
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China sentences Japanese man on espionage charges
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Beijing [China], May 18 (ANI): A Chinese court on Friday handed a five and half year prison sentence to a 70-year-old Japanese man on charges of espionage, as per Japan's Foreign Ministry.
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India frees 19 Pakistani prisoners
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Amritsar (Punjab) [India], May 15 (ANI): 19 Pakistani prisoners returned home from the Attari-Wagah border after being released by Indian authorities on Tuesday.
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Afghanistan: Prison riot kills 4 inmates, 33 injured including police
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Kabul [Afghanistan], May 15 (ANI): Four inmates lost their lives while 33 others, including 20 police officers, were injured after riots broke out at the Pul-e-Charkhi prison here on Tuesday (local time).
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Nalanda: 8 people arrested after four children escape from juvenile rehabi
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Nalanda (Bihar) [India], May 14 (ANI): Eight people were arrested for negligence of duty after four child prisoners escaped by cutting the rods of the window of a juvenile rehabilitation home in Deepnagar, Nalanda district on Monday.
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Hundreds of inmates escape after riots break out in Indonesian prison
Updated : 7 years ago IST
Jakarta [Indonesia], May 11 (ANI): Hundreds of prisoners escaped from an Indonesian jail on Sumatra island after rioting and fire broke out on Saturday morning at the detention centre.
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